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By Suzanne Hinton Emerson College has been named to the 2014 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. The College is earning this honor for the seventh consecutive year since the award’s inception in 2007. The Honor Roll recognizes…

By Dakota Damschroder “What does it mean to be a citizen of a community?” is the question around which Professor Elizabeth Baeten’s Citizenship as Civic Engagement service learning course focuses. “It’s a really interesting question, because you have to figure…

By Matthew Durham I am a garden educator with the Edible Schoolyard New Orleans. I teach garden elective classes at a high poverty K-8 school to some 800+ scholars. My time is spent in a quarter-acre, fully organic garden, complete…

By Dakota Damschroder “Inclusive excellence” is a term used frequently to describe Emerson’s mission of creating a welcoming campus for students of all backgrounds. One student group particularly embodies this ideal. In the spring of 2013, several students started UNITE…

By Dakota Damschroder Nesson brings all this experience to his service learning course Documentary for Social Action, offered in the spring of 2015. “Students will work with grassroots community groups to make films that those groups feel are useful to…

By Dakota Damschroder What happens when you combine a desire to clean up the neighborhood and a knowledge of welding? Human-powered garbage trucks built from bicycles. This is the topic of filmmaker and Emerson professor Bob Nesson’s latest short documentary,…